rockbound

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After reeling off a few contemporary images�"nemesis clouds," "putrid smoke," "noxious oxides"�he got to Fuller's Maine point: A nd the rockbound coast Is threatened by the super Tankers disgorging crude oil On the tide .

From Time Magazine Archive

These rockbound bubbles of salt, one or two miles across and sometimes taller than the Rocky Mountains, are the famed salt domes of the Gulf Coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

He admired the iron and certainty of the traditional Calvinist theology, "stern and rockbound" like the coast of Maine.

From Time Magazine Archive

White is a rockbound New Englander who still believes that "the best thing in New York is the 5 o'clock train to Boston."

From Time Magazine Archive

John Hiram Gilbreth died in 1871, leaving his three-year-old son, two older daughters, and a stern and rockbound widow.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey